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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Just saw a post and a ton of comments condemning students graduating from GALLAUDET that either waved the Palestinian flag or wore the keffiyeh with their gowns. … and a lot of Deaf community members are showing their true colors.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

What do you call the student loans of a Deaf person? Gallaudebt

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Gallaudet came up with a new name sign for Coke (THE DRINK) but it’s just C-O-K-E. How is that a name sign?

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

People who vape at bus stations annoy me. I don’t wanna be inhaling that shit.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I am CONVINCED that introducing an air purifier to your bedroom will give you the most vivid and weirdest dreams.

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🏳️‍⚧️Rogan🏳️‍🌈 @shannonosays.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Ew. I just got an email about a workshop discussing how interpreting will need to adapt to AI, and how to integrate it in their practice. What really put me off is this quote: AI will not replace interpreters—but interpreters who embrace AI and emotional intelligence will replace those who don’t.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ok but who was gonna tell me that a negroni is just straight up alcohol? I wasn't trying to get lit on a Sunday night before school.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Colleague: Omg this administration… it’s like communism. *beat* Me: You mean fascism… Colleague: oh well um… that too… Me: *confused look* 🤨

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Y’all hating on Korra is the reason why people with trauma and mental illnesses have such a hard time opening up. I will die on this hill.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Disabilty community! I need your help finding a TikTok! There was this skit by this lady that was like “if people treated breaking the law like ADA violations” and I can’t findddd ittt. She says something like “oh you’ve [insert egregious crime]. I should file a complaint about this”

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Maybe I’m just a hater… but I would like to see more Deaf movies that don’t center around White people… that’s just me.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I joined another app 📕 (just to lurk for now) and of course, the first thing I see when searching “deaf” is an American hearing coda and I’m a little miffed. 😤

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Tried making a piece of art for a christmas gift the day of… got too ambitious… injured my elbow… hey macarena!

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

White people will really start a meeting with “community agreements” to address potential harm but when the actual harm gets addressed, all of a sudden, there’s not enough time because we have to “get through everything” in the meeting.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My professor told me on the last day of class that he thinks I have what it takes to pursue a PhD and I can’t tell if he likes me or hates me. 😂

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Such a good threaddddd… my skin are clear, nature is healing

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I took a trip down memory lane by watching like OLD TikToks I posted back in 2020 and damn… I don’t even recognize that person anymore… but good on them for being creative during the pandemic.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s a real mindfuck to have a Speech and Hearing clinic right next to the School of Social Work. One wrong turn and I’m back to my childhood trauma. Good thing there are social workers around though.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is it just me or does the free version of Grammarly impose on one’s voice in writing? I feel like the little paywall-blocked yellow suggestions are so anxiety inducing that I feel like is forcing me into this grammatically correct but dry style of writing.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Friend to other Friend: It’s LGBTQIA2+. Me and my partner: …2S+ Friend: ‘scuse me… LGBTQIA2S+… Me: Yeah they haven’t upgraded to 3S+ yet.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#HotTake: Developing AI sign language interpreters will lead to the degradation of sign language artistry and expression, not to mention further suppress dialects and accents unique to BIPOC communities.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#Throwback to when my coworker got reprimanded by HR for using AI to make image descriptions because it kept misgendering all my other coworkers. And to think he still had the audacity to suggest that we can use AI to come up with names for our rebranding… for a Deaf organization.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I don’t know if it’s disability consciousness or if ableism is actually getting worse as I get older? I’m seeing a lot more inspiration porn, a lot of slurs being resurfaced, and just outright hostility… and yes I do think COVID is a part of it…

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Tiny bit annoyed that my roommate said she needed the kitchen by 9AM so I woke up at the crack of dawn to make everything I needed to make only for her to sleep in till 10…

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ADHD will literally have you one day be like I want to write an article and then the next day, nah… scratch that I want to make a documentary and then after that you’re like… I’m doing too much. I’m just going to sleep.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Happy DB Cooper Day!

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Interpreter: The can issssss… sorry… the CUP isss only filled up h-half way.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So we’re just all gonna casually ignore the ableism in Wicked? cool.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

YALL MY ROOMMATE JUST BROKE MY BRAIN HELP I was listening to music through my hearing aids via Bluetooth and she’s like do you hear music? And I’m like uh… yeah in my ears I do… and she’s like well I can hear it from across the room. YOURE TELLING ME THESE HEARING AIDS ARENT SOUND PROOF???

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ok I’m still not religious but I don’t think I could NOT be spiritual because TELL ME WHY… for my birthday, I wanted to go to FOB Sushi Bar but both locations were packed so I went to another restaurant and now FOB is closed because of tapeworms. Like the ancestors were WATCHING!

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a group of people holding flags with a mountain in the background

Alt: a group of people dressed in white holding up multiple Philippine flags in the wind with mountains in the background

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dear hearing ASL Students, Yes. Please learn sign language! Immerse yourself in the culture. AND know that not every signing/Deaf event is for you to attend. I don’t care if your teacher assigned it. A lot of us need a space just for signing and socializing w/o needing to cater to hearing people.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

ADHD is subscribing to a monthly batch of tea from your favorite local tea shop (shoutout to @fridaytea.com) but forgetting to pick it up. I’M SORRY. This is my accountability post to stop by today or this weekend.

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Jason Gervase | ASL Pinnacle @aslpinnacle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I did a thing. If you’re a Deaf content creator and would like to be added, let me know. go.bsky.app/Fnx7oL9

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’ve seen rumors of a CODA: The Musical being developed and honestly… my hot take is Deaf people deserve so much better in representation than this.

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That Deaf Immigrant @annalim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks to @drkotatakayama.bsky.social's suggestion, I just started an Asian DHH/Signing Folks Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/8EotUiN Let me know if you'd like to be added (or even removed) from the list. Suggestions on who to add are welcome as well.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Shoutout to my interpreter today who I sneezed in front of and in response to my “excuse me” she swiftly said “no” in the middle of interpreting.

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Remy Johnson ❌👑 @deafpundit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here’s a Starter Pack for us Deaf. If you want to be added, LMK!

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Interpreters, it is super freaking AWKWARD for you to assume that a client will request you again if they have not explicitly said they will. By asking about upcoming potential assignments, you infringe on their ability to choose which interpreters they wish to work with.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“What’s a bomb cyclone?!” Me: It’s a hurricane with ADHD. #Seattle

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Right now, I’m pursing a degree in social work to eventually become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. And I can’t help but keep wondering about the impact interpreters have on the mental health of Deaf youth and young adults. I haven’t event got my Master’s yet and I keep thinking abt a PhD.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I thought we weren’t going to us the word, “skeet”. Didn’t #BlackSky ask us not to use it a while ago? If things have changed, let me know but… I wanna make sure we’re not Whitewashing another AAVE term.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

DUE AT 12:00! SUBMITTED AT 11:55! It’s probably a dumpster fire of a paper but it’s done. C’s get degrees.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Everyone pray for me… I have a paper due tmw and I “plan to wake up early” to work on it.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The older I get the more I understand why some Deaf people are so jaded. Today, I went to go see Wicked (the musical, not the movie) and for the second time, there was an interpreter who I felt wasn’t qualified for that kind of work and it really took away from my show experience. (cont.)

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